Example sentences of "been there [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You bozos do n't seem to realise it but if we had n't been there at that Florence Conference , would not be in the leading position it currently holds with the commission to guarantee further funds and to create a positive role for Britain in Europe with the commission to wuk look at the issues that are gon na come up in 1993 . |
| 2 | Pumpido had to make two saves while neither of the Italians need have been there at all . |
| 3 | But perhaps she 'd never really been there at all . |
| 4 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
| 5 | At the very genesis of all feeling and awareness one thought held sway which should not really have been there at all : that to be grown-up , to be a man , meant losing a great part of me . |
| 6 | She had let her overwhelming desire feed her imagination ; had read something into his words , his looks , his actions , which had not been there at all . |
| 7 | The first thing that strikes me is that my aunt — an almost complete stranger as far as I was concerned — should have been there at all , within the family circle where no friend or neighbour was allowed , and thus in a privileged position to make personal remarks of the type which would not have been tolerated from any other quarter . |
| 8 | He just disappeared , as if he 'd never been there at all . |
| 9 | But you had to remember the circumstances they were there under — they should never have been there at all . |
| 10 | Perhaps she had not been there at all , in the street , but a phantom instead had taken her place , looking like her , feeling like her inside too , but not her , for she , Rosa , had been in her bed , dreaming . |
| 11 | Now it must have been must n't it , a possibility , if been there at all , that he was hiding under that bed ? |
| 12 | That 's true yes , I 've never even been there at all , let alone played there . |
| 13 | I bet nobody 's been there at all . |
| 14 | ‘ Back home in Australia , you can play for my university there , Queensland , for ever , so long as you 've been there at some time . |
| 15 | He 's supposed to have been there at half past nine ! |
| 16 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 17 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 18 | have n't been there for many years |
| 19 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 20 | You think of the people , I mean , these people have been there for all those years |
| 21 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 22 | The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining . |
| 23 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 24 | Brooke Alexander , of course , and Josh Baer , Ronald Feldman , Pat Hearn and Feature have been there for some time . |
| 25 | " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time … |
| 26 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 27 | Getting the old cistern out can sometimes be a problem — particularly if it 's been there for some time . |
| 28 | The most difficult part of getting out a galvanised hot water tank is likely to be disconnecting the pipes leading to and from the boiler particularly if they have been there for some time . |
| 29 | It had probably been there for some time ! |
| 30 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |